Its my pleasure to invite tracy gordon, who is a senior fellow in the brookings urban tax policy center. She is a leading scholar and specialist in the area of state and local finance, and we are so delighted to have her as part of the urban team and working on these issues. And she is going to present work and research that shes done with colleagues at ucla and kick off our next panel conversation. Tracy . Thank you very much, erika. And thank to my colleagues at the urban institute and the Lincoln Institute of land policy. Such a terrific program. Very excited to be here today and talk about some of the work of my coauthors in l. A. At uc berkley. First, our unit of analysis is different. Were not looking at these fiscally standardized cities, but were looking at cities just how they exist. Were not capturing these differences that andy laid out between, say, baltimore and tampa, but we are capturing the decisionmaking unit as opposed to maybe you can think about fiscally standardize
To invite tracy gordon, who is a senior fellow in the brookings urban tax policy center. She is a leading scholar and specialist in the area of state and local finance, and we are so delighted to have her as part of the urban team and working on these issues. And she is going to present work and research that shes done with colleagues at ucla and kick off our next panel conversation. Tracy . Thank you very much, erika. And thank to my colleagues at the urban institute and the Lincoln Institute of land policy. Such a terrific program. Very excited to be here today and talk about some of the work of my coauthors in l. A. At uc berkley. First, our unit of analysis is different. Were not looking at these fiscally standardized cities, but were looking at cities just how they exist. Were not capturing these differences that andy laid out between, say, baltimore and tampa, but we are capturing the decisionmaking unit as opposed to maybe you can think about fiscally standardized cities as the
Closing up shop and another filing for bankruptcy a lot of folks are vying for jobs in a very small weekend. This is the second job fair with a huge turn out. Fox 29s bruce gore season life in Atlantic City tonight a tough time for a lot of people, bruce. Reporter absolutely. Im on the boardwalk outside the newly shuddered showboat casino. We are witnessing an unprecedented economic melt down of Atlantic Citys signature industry and today some of the victims of that melt down gathered to try and get back on their feet. Sun was shining and an ocean breeze cooled Atlantic Citys boardwalk. But for more than a thousand laid off casino workers this was no day at the beach. They crowd the Convention Center in hopes of finding jobs to replace the only work many have ever known. 61 year old burt shaw lost his position when the Atlantic Club folded in january. Hes been looking ever since. Scary as anyone would be if they didnt have a job and you got bills and stuff to pay, you know. May of 2003
Im lucy nolan. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell has been talking with that boy and his familiar. Hes live in new castle tonight. Leaves us shaking our heads, chris. Reporter it sure does, lucy. Heartbreaking to hear this child tell this story. Extreme case of bullying tonight has now turned criminal. The victim a 12 year old boy in a wheelchair. The suspects may not even be teenagers themselves. Tonight, the family is speaking out in hopes of catching those attackers. Come on, daddy. I want to go see those kids now. Like most 12 year olds la quon mackey is always on the go. But monday afternoon, the newark, delaware, boy with Cerebral Palsy was stopped in his track. They kept punching me right here on my face like right there and still hurts. Reporter mackey describes the beating he got from two kids just outside his buchanan circle home. Trying to go as fast as i could. He was on his street exercising trying to earn his boy scout merit badge for physical fitness. Thats when the boys pushed his
And a local boy in a wheelchair just trying to earn his boy scout badge viciously attacked and robbed and its not the first time. You got to just leave us alone and just get help. Tonight his message to the young bullies who keep targeting him. Developing right now. The search for those bullies. Delaware police say they keep target ago 12 year old boy in a wheelchair beating him up and robbing him. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy nolan. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell has been talking with that boy and his familiar. Hes live in new castle tonight. Leaves us shaking our heads, chris. Reporter it sure does, lucy. Heartbreaking to hear this child tell this story. Extreme case of bullying tonight has now turned criminal. The victim a 12 year old boy in a wheelchair. The suspects may not even be teenagers themselves. Tonight, the family is speaking out in hopes of catching those attackers. Come on, daddy. I want to go see those kids now. Like most 12 year olds la quon mackey is always on the go.